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captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> o'donnell: no choice but to act. the speaker of the house declares there will be articles of impeachment. before angrily warning a reporter: >> don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. >> o'donnell: tonight the question that set the speaker off. breaking news tonight: a shoot- out in the streets of miami after a delivery driver is taken hostage. we have the late-breaking details just coming in. evil incorporated-- russian hackers living large on your money. hot rods and exotic cats. prosecutors say all of this paid for with cash stolen from americans, schools, even a nursing home ripped off. and you won't believe what they call themselves. pearl harbor shooting: a u.s. sailor in hawaii opens fire, killing civilians and himself. how he got a gun on to a naval
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base. fighting words: joe biden faces off with a voter. >> you're a damn liar, man. get your words straight, jack. >> o'donnell: what that man said that made the former vice president so mad. plus gayle king sits down with mike bloomberg, his first tv interview since entering the presidential race. deadly airbags. they're designed to keep you safe. tonight, one car company says thousands are so dangerous you shouldn't get behind the wheel. we have the list of cars affected. and remembering rosa parks. a new exhibit reveals the civil rights icon you never knew. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west. house speaker nancy pelosi is making it official, green lighting congress to begin drafting articles of impeachment, addressing the nation from the capitol, the speaker says president trump's conduct leaves her no choice,
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that nothing less than american democracy is at stake. it was a day of high drama and hot tempers. and as we come on the air, there are still many unanswered questions, but one thing is clear-- house democrats want to move quickly. and it means the president could be impeached by christmas. nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us tonight, and, nancy, you were there when the speaker made that statement, "don't mess with me," and it seemed to reverberate through the capitol. >> reporter: and it came, norah, in response to the suggestion that she is taking this step because she hates the president. she argued that it isn't about her feelings. it's about the constitution, and the president's oath of office. >> today, i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. >> reporter: the speaker confirmed what many had assumed, that the house is on track to impeach a president for just the third time in u.s. history. >> the president gave us no choice.
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>> reporter: top democrats from six key committees are already conferring on articles of impeachment that could include abuse of power, bribery, and obstruction of justice. >> it's all impeachment, all the time. >> reporter: republicans insist the president had every right to ask ukraine's president to investigate his campaign rival, joe biden, and to withhold millions in aid to ukraine at the same time. >> you just don't like the guy! >> reporter: one reporter asked pelosi about that as she left the podium today. >> reporter: the speaker stormed back to the microphone. >> i pray for the president all the time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words
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qucused pesi of ha a nes fi. it's a big, fat ho >> r push selfish and a blatant, purely partisan attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election. but pelosi argued the president was the one trying to corrupt the next election. >> we see our mission as defending democracy for the people. >> reporter: the house judiciary committee has announced a hearing for next monday where the members will be presented with all the evidence that has been gathered so far. then the committee would likely have to debate and vote on articles of impeachment by the end of next week, norah, if democrats want the full house to vote on impeachment before the holidays. >> o'donnell: what an extraordinary day, nancy. thank you. now to some breaking news in south florida. a jewel heist, a wild chase, and it all ended in a hail of bullets. manuel bojorquez reports from
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miami. >> reporter: norah it all started with an armed robbery at the jewelry store behind me. helicopter video captured what happened next. several dozen police cars set off on a high-speed chase that cut through the greater miami area after at least one suspect hijacked that u.p.s. truck. eventually, the truck was forced to slow down when it became boxed in by traffic. at least 20 law enforcement officers approached with long guns and opened fire. then at least one body is seen lying on the ground next to the u.p.s. truck. >> there was exchanged fire between law enforcement and the suspects. >> the suspects are now deceased, but two additional innocent civilians were also deceased. >> reporter: authorities also say no law enforcement officers were killed. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, coral gables, florida. >> o'donnell: and there's more breaking news tonight, this time in central minnesota, where a black hawk helicopter crashed with three crew members on board. the national guard lost contact
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with the helicopter shortly after it took off from st. cloud on a maintenance test flight, and the crew called mayday. we are awaiting word on the condition of the crew. federal prosecutors charged two russian hackers today with ripping off american businesses and schools, even a nursing home. they say the men were so brazen, they named their company "evil corp." and as jeff pegues reports, the name fits. >> reporter: it looked like a scene out of the "fast and the furious," russian hackers burning up the streets of moscow in $200,000 cars. videos and photographs released by investigators show the alleged hackers living large, posing with arms full of cash, and showing off a pet lion cub. the two men, including the leader who calls himself "aqua," are charged with trying to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from people and companies around the world. bob jones is with britain's national crime agency. >> we estimate that at least 300
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different organizations in 43 countries have been affected by these attacks. >> reporter: the targets of the hackers range from a school district in pennsylvania to an assisted living facility run by the franciscan sisters outside chicago. will these victims ever get their money back? >> that is our aim is to follow the money wherever we can. how successful we're able to be in that time will tell. >> reporter: the suspects clearly aren't hiding. with their distinctive luxury sports cars, they seem to be daring investigators to come after them. >> o'donnell: and jeff joins us tonight. what's the likelihood the f.b.i. ever catches these guys? >> yeah, it's rare for the f.b.i. to get their hands on criminals in russia. so even though the men were charged here, it could happen. but it is highly unlikely that they will ever face u.s. justice. >> o'donnell: how much did they steal? >> reporter: hundreds of millions of dollars from thousands of people and companies. >> o'donnell: all right, jeff, thank you so much. pearl harbor navy base office
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was on lockdown for 90 minutes after a deadly shooting wednesday, and tonight, investigators are still searching for the motive. jonathan vigliotti is in honolulu. >> reporter: a 22-year-old active-duty sailor was in uniform when he fired his service weapon and killed two civilians working for the department of defense, before shooting himself. a third civilian shipyard worker was wounded and taken to a local hospital. >> i don't know what's going on, but they're not letting us out. >> reporter: identified by local media as gabriel romero, the gunman was on watch duty for the uss "columbia," an attack submarine. a lockdown alert went out to almost 100,000 people living and working on the base when the shooting began. one of the victims, vincent kapoi jr., was working at the shipyard when he was killed. he had been married for less than a year. >> we have no indication yet if they were targeted or it was a random shooting. >> reporter: shootings in hawaii are rare. the state has very strict gun laws and lowest gun death rate in the country.
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the shooting comes at a somber time for the base and is raising new security concerns tonight. thousands will gather here in two days to observe the 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. norah. >> o'donnell: jonathan in honolulu, thank you. now to a cbs news exclusive. "cbs this morning's" gayle king sat down in colorado with mike bloomberg for his first tv interview since joining the race for the democratic nomination for president. >> reporter: do you think president trump should be impeached? >> i think it's a very serious thing, but it-- and i was before opposed to it, but after looking at all the evidence, i think, yes. sad, but yes. >> reporter: what is the biggest thing that troubles you about him? >> he does not seem to understand that he is the-- an elected official whose job it is to work for the public rather than for himself. >> o'donnell: and more news from the campaign trail as things got pretty hot in iowa.
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democratic frontrunner joe biden went at it with a voter who accused him of sending his son hunter to work for a ukrainian energy company for the family's benefit. well, the vice president even challenged the man to a pushup contest. ed o'keefe tonight with the blow-by-blow. >> i gotta question i want you to answer. >> reporter: pacing the floor like a prize fighter, joe biden punched back when challenged on how his son hunter landed lucrative position in ukraine. >> you're a damn liar, man. that's not true. and no one has ever said that. >> i see it on the tv-- >> you see it on the tv-- >> reporter: hunter biden joined the board of burisma in april 2014, around the time his father was pressing the ukrainian government to fight corruption. president trump has spread disproven accusations of wrongdoing against them, and his concern what the bidens were doing is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. >> you said i set up my son to work in an oil company. isn't that what you said? get your words straight, jack? >> that's what i read here on msnbc.
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>> you don't hear that on msnbc. >> the hell i didn't. >> look, here's the deal, here's >> it looks like-- it looks like you don't have any more backbone than trump does. you're selling. >> reporter: also today in iowa, tough talk from new jersey senator corey booker. he's concerned that polling and fund-raising requirements mean it's unlikely that minority presidential candidates like him will appear on stage at the party's next debate in two weeks. >> i'm just going to say it plain-- it is a problem that we now have an overall campaign for the 2020 presidency that has more billionaires in it than black people. >> o'donnell: and, ed is here with us. he was clearly talking about mike bloomberg. what are some of the other candidates saying about bloomberg? >> one of the more interesting ones is elizabeth warren, who has launched a tv ad targeting the mayor himself, singling him out saying it would be a lot
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cheaper for bloomberg to spend a few hundred billion and buy the presidency instead of paying the higher taxes she thinks billionaires like him should be paying. >> o'donnell: there is more of gayle king's exclusive interview with candidate mike bloomberg. that's tomorrow on "cbs this morning." tonight there is a new recall involving more than one million takata airbags. what's different this time is that one car company is telling thousands of owners, "don't even get behind the wheel." kris van cleave has more on a potentially deadly defect. >> reporter: if you have a 1999 bmw 323i or 328i, the automaker is telling you do not drive it. in a crash, its takata airbag could explode sending shrapnel into the cabin or simply not inflate at all. this new takata defect is in airbags produced between 1995 and 1999. it's been linked to at least one death and a handful of injuries worldwide. automakers including toyota, honda, and audi are now scrambling to figure out which makes and models will need to be recalled.
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along with 1999-2001 three series bmws, and 1998-2000 mitsubishi monteros. 1.4 million vehicles in all. jason levine from the center for auto safety. why did it take 20-plus years to find out there was a problem? >> it would appear that the reason they weren't discovered is because there weren't tragedies, which we can be thankful for. on the other hand, where was the quality control? >> reporter: a different but similar defect in other takata airbags has resulted in at least 24 deaths worldwide and forced the largest recall in auto history. approximately 41.6 million vehicles in the u.s. alone, roughly 13.3 million airbags still have to be replaced. >> spread the word about this potentially deadly safety recall. >> reporter: car makers enlisted hollywood star power to get owners to check if their vehicle was affected. in fort collins, colorado, thomas and martha fenno did just that, and they've been waiting three years for their 2007 tahoe to get fixed.
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>> we have a car that we can't use or get fixed, and... i'd like to punch somebody. >> reporter: general motors, who makes the yukon, has petitioned the federal government seeking to exempt several of its vehicles from that massive recall, saying its own testing shows the vehicles are safe. this most recent recall of 1.4 million cars, it's unclear how many of them are still on the roads, given their age, and finding their current owners may not be easy. norah. >> o'donnell: yeah, and so frustrating for those trying to get repairs. thank you, kris. there is still much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." is it a promising new alzheimer's drug or more false hope? the new debate. school hero-- after a frightening attack, she led dozens of students to a safe hideaway. later, rosa parks in her own words. we'll show you a very different side of the famed activist. side of the famed tifort.
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disrupted transportation across the country. workers are staging a walkout against president macron's plans to overhaul france's retirement system. protests are mostly peaceful, but police fired tear gas at small groups of rioters. there is new debate tonight over a drug that aims to be the first medication to slow mental decline from alzheimer's disease. well, today, the drug maker, biogen, said its alzheimer's drug deserves serious consideration from the f.d.a. biogen recently stopped testing the drug after determining that it wasn't effective, but in a reversal, the company says new evidence presented today shows the drug can possibly slow alzheimer's by removing harmful plaque from the brain. up next, what you didn't know about civil rights icon rosa parks. icon rosa parks.
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civil rights icon. on december 5, 1955, thousands of african americans began walking to work in montgomery, alabama, boycotting city buses to protest segregated seating. that protest was sparked by one woman-- rosa parks. >> i didn't feel that i was being treated as a human being. i refused to give up the seat and said no i wouldn't give it nell"i had been pushed around all my life," she later wrote, "and felt at this moment i couldn't take it anymore." that letter is part of a new rosa parks exhibit here at the library of congress. dr. carla hayden is the first woman and first african american to run the library. >> this exhibit is the first time that people will see rosa parks writing in her own hand, a clear, bold cursive, about her feelings, how she struggled, and then how she knew it was the moment to take that step on the bus.
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>> o'donnell: the collection is expansive. the seamstress loved to write on whatever paper she could find, like this pancake recipe on the back of a bank envelope. it also includes photos of her and jane gunter, who was also on that bus. what was that day like? >> they were commanding her to get up. i said, "she can have my seat!" and when i said that, a fair- skinned man pushed his knees into mine and said... >> o'donnell: don't you dare move. >> "don't you dare move." >> we still have quite a ways to go. >> o'donnell: rosa parks remained active in the civil rights movement until her death in 2005. she was 92 years old. >> the thoughts, the feelings of rosa parks will be housed in the same building as thomas jefferson, frederick douglass, clara barton, her thoughts in her own words.
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>> o'donnell: that makes me tear up. >> she never thought, when she was writing those words, that other people would see them. and now, we have that. >> o'donnell: and the bus boycott that rosa parks inspired would last for more than a year, ending when supreme court ruled that montgomery's bus segregation was unconstitutional. proof, again, that one woman can make a difference. we'll be right back. ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ]
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